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Rape: Drugs

Mr. Boris Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) reports of, (b) arrests for and (c) convictions for drug rape were made in London in each of the last 10 years. [169813]

Mr. Coaker: The information requested is not collected centrally. Data on offences of rape recorded by the police are collected by the Home Office. Data on arrests and those convicted are collected by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform. However, it is not possible to separately identify drug rapes in either statistical series.

Special Constables

Mr. Boris Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many special constables there were in (a) England and (b) each London borough in each year since 1997. [166929]

Mr. McNulty: The available information is in the following tables. Police officer figures for London boroughs were collected centrally from 2003.

Number of special constables: 1997 to 2007
Table A: Special constables for London and England: 1997 to 2002( 1)
Headcount
	Year ending 31 March:
	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
London(2)	1,800	1,358	1,202	814	817	716
England	18,732	17,159	15,396	13,512	11,949	10,897

Table B: Special constables for London and England: 2003 to 2007( 1)
Headcount
	Year ending 31 March:
	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Barking and Dagenham	14	14	10	21	28
Barnet	41	38	35	73	94
Bexley	27	74	81	103	101
Bishopsgate	20	28	27	32	35
Brent	28	29	27	29	19
Bromley	14	12	10	24	47
Camden	21	28	22	52	78
Central Services	19	20	27	41	114
City of Westminster	64	85	81	166	251
Croydon	23	17	14	20	36
Ealing	16	21	14	24	37
Enfield	25	20	17	23	30
Greenwich	16	17	7	42	44
Hackney	13	12	9	19	25
Hammersmith and Fulham	18	20	19	44	58
Haringey	12	13	14	27	43
Harrow	16	13	10	22	52
Havering	26	29	33	41	52
Heathrow	9	7	12	16	17
Hillingdon	19	15	15	22	38
Hounslow	20	18	15	23	21
Islington	35	39	35	32	40
Kensington and Chelsea	15	14	20	37	51
Kingston upon Thames	16	15	13	32	40
Lambeth	21	20	20	35	42
Lewisham	14	13	9	33	42
Merton	17	17	17	21	19
Newham	18	16	15	23	42
Redbridge	19	17	16	34	54
Richmond upon Thames	21	19	17	25	36
Snowhill	21	24	24	32	30
Southwark	17	18	9	25	36
Sutton	7	6	4	11	25
Tower Hamlets	14	17	20	34	36
Waltham Forest	19	16	10	19	25
Wandsworth	19	15	21	34	68
City of London	41	52	51	64	65
London	734	796	749	1,291	1,815
England	10,449	10,359	11,285	12,431	13,221
(1) Figures for specials are counted in terms of headcount rather than full-time equivalent. (2) The London totals comprise officer totals for Metropolitan police and City of London police. They are ‘not’ totals of the London boroughs because they also include Heathrow and Central Services. Excludes officers on career breaks and maternity/paternity leave.

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